Witch Wind

Chapter 212: Secret Agreement for Restoration (Part )

Xing Tianli misunderstood something.

The nine small tripods were integrated with a ray of the essence of 'mediating creation' from the 'Wuhuang Tripod'. When his own cultivation was already on the verge of the Golden Immortal's threshold, worldly gold, silver, jewelry and other items were cheap items that he could create in just a breath.

Gold and silver have never been very precious things to Xing Tianli.

Even at the beginning, when he needed a large amount of gold, silver, and steel as nourishment for his cultivation, the local tyrants and evil gentry, unscrupulous businessmen in Jiangdong Province, and the warships that died in battles of various countries all provided him with a huge amount of cultivation resources. He never worried about gold and silver.

Not to mention now, gold and silver are like dirt to him.

But what does gold coin mean in today's England?
England is the most famous troublemaker among the hundreds of countries in the Western Continent. In terms of war, culture, history, academia, and other aspects, the Kingdom of England is incompatible with other countries - including the currency system.

For example, England stipulated that one standard large gold coin, also known as the "Gold Coin of Glory", could be exchanged for six normal gold coins, also known as the "Queen's Gold Coin"; one Queen's Gold Coin could be exchanged for twelve silver coins, also known as the "Scepter Silver Coin"; each Scepter Silver Coin, its value in the Eastern Shenzhou, because of its extremely high purity and exquisite casting, can be exchanged for one tael and five cents to two taels of official silver.

A scepter silver coin can be disassembled into twelve large copper coins of "Crown and Shield", or it can be disassembled into twenty-four ordinary copper coins of "Knight's Sword and Shield".

Each large copper coin of "Crown and Shield" can be disassembled into twelve small copper coins; and each ordinary copper coin of "Knight's Sword and Shield" can be disassembled into six small copper coins.

In other words, one glory gold coin can be disassembled into 10,368 small copper coins.

What is the value of this small copper coin?
In the slums, young girls standing on the street, shivering because of their tattered clothes, are warmed by the broad and warm arms of strong men passing by. The price of being warmed once depends on their age and appearance, and the price is about twenty to fifty copper coins.

In the slums, in those fly-filled bakeries, a piece of black bread weighed one pound and was mixed with a lot of impurities such as rice bran and grass seeds. It was so hard that it could be used as a murder tool. The price of a piece was about ten copper coins.

The poor people with strong vitality, a family of four, their daily food consumption, if they do not do heavy physical work such as unloading goods at the dock, the daily ration for four people is just this piece of bread.

The annual food expenses for a family of four, if compressed to the limit, would be just 3,600 copper coins.

One large gold coin could support a family of four for three years!

Three large gold coins can provide insurance for a family of four for nearly ten years!

ten years?

Haha, in the slums, 50% of the babies and children do not live to be ten years old. Ten years is such a long and extravagant time for them. Not to mention these babies and children, even almost all the slum dwellers here, they can only hope for how to maintain their lives in the next month, no one dares to talk about "what I will do next year"!
The iron box that was overturned by Xing Tianli's guards rolled out sparkling things. On it was a ball of flame wrapped in a crown and scepter pattern of the "Gold Coin of Glory" - it was drawn up by the founding emperor of the First Dynasty of England, and the pattern symbolized the eternal destiny of the empire!
A burly man with at least seven or eight scars on his face, looking extremely hideous and ugly, suddenly jumped out of the crowd. The guards and armed policemen around Xing Tianli raised their guns and locked onto the man's body. The man suddenly stopped, raised his hands, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Honorable Sir, the three gold coins you mentioned as resettlement fee, are they three honor gold coins?"

Xing Tianli looked down at the gold coins rolling out of the box and shrugged his shoulders: "What you see is what you get. Of course, this is a big one, three coins per person... As long as you can carry a gun, move a shell, and dare to shoot my enemy in the head, three gold coins will be your resettlement fee!"

From all directions, dense and dull footsteps could be heard from the simple huts.

Like a tide, large groups of men rushed in. Facing the black muzzles of the guards and armed police, they stood several feet away with extreme caution.

Several sturdy men like Scarface, with scars all over their faces and bodies, squeezed out of the crowd. They looked down at the gold coins scattered on the ground, and their eyes suddenly became extremely fanatical.

A man with obvious signs of regular military training shouted, "Honorable sir, you are willing to give three honor gold coins for the resettlement fee, then, what about our military pay? If we die in battle, what about our pension?"

Xing Tianli rubbed his head vigorously. He pondered for a moment and nodded slowly: "Following me in battle will be very dangerous. Will you die? But in my opinion, your lives are worthy of respect. Your lives cannot be sold too cheaply... So, one month's military pay, five glory gold coins? I think this is a more reasonable price."

There was complete silence all around, and more and more people gathered here.

Farther away, someone was screaming hysterically and shouting crazily - there was a rich and powerful fool who came to the slums to buy his life at a price several or even dozens of times higher than the market price!
Xing Tianli said slowly, "When you join my army, everyone will start with a salary of five Honor Gold Coins, which is very reasonable. Of course, some of you will become veterans, privates of the third class? Privates of the second class? Privates of the first class? For every promotion of a soldier, one Honor Gold Coin will be added to their salary. Some of you will also become officers, second lieutenants? Lieutenants? Captains? For every promotion of an officer, their salary will be doubled."

"Some of you can become generals... When you reach the rank of general, major general? Lieutenant general? General? Oh no, I won't insult my generals with military pay. My army will be a large joint-stock army, a joint-stock army. My generals will have the right to dividends."

"For example, my legion conquered a province of Farus. Then, I authorize you and allow you to plunder all the wealth you can plunder. How much liquid funds in the market, family reserves, and bank vaults would a province of Farus have?"

"One hundred million 'Queen's Gold Coins'? I think that's a reasonable number... Then, I'll take 30%, my generals will share 40%, and the remaining 30% will be transferred to the Logistics Department as military pay."

"Of course, this is just cash. Every general who conquers any province of Farus will be entitled to first select a luxurious mansion, three hunting lodges for vacation in the suburbs, and ten farms with beautiful scenery. One mansion, three hunting lodges, and ten farms. This is the treatment I promised all my generals!"

"This is the dividends from the real estate, and there are also women... Whenever you conquer any province or city, my generals can freely enjoy any woman of the nobles in Falusi. Their wives, their daughters, and even their mothers, as long as you have such an appetite!"

The whole slum was dead silent, dead silent, dead silent... All the poor people, more and more poor people gathered quietly around, they all stared straight at Xing Tianli - their eyes were cloudy, dull and pure, the way they looked at Xing Tianli at this moment was as if they were looking at the god they believed in.

Not only these poor people, but also the armed policemen selected by Little Doug to be responsible for protecting Xing Tianli, all of them had flickering eyes and water marks at the corners of their mouths, looking at him almost in worship.

Now, as long as Xing Tianli hooked his finger at these armed policemen, they would voluntarily abandon their duties and posts, and enthusiastically hug and kiss Xing Tianli like embracing a long-awaited rain.

"Of course, generals are nothing. The generals under my command can only get a little bit of pitiful gold coins, a little bit of insignificant real estate, a little bit of insignificant farmland... What is this?"

"There will be nobles under my command!" Xing Tianli raised his arms and waved them enthusiastically: "As long as the troops under my command fight bravely, I promise that the generals, officers and soldiers with the most merits will all become nobles!"

"Generals can become dukes, marquises, earls... They can get half a province, a dozen cities, or even a city as a fiefdom."

"Officers can become viscounts and barons. They can own at most one city, or at least a few towns. They can make laws for their own territories at will. You can enjoy the best laws of the Western Land nobles, such as the 'right of first night'."

"And soldiers, as long as you fight bravely and give me enough heads of enemies, you can become knights. Under my command, three levels of knighthood will be established. The lowest-ranking knight of the third level can also own a farm of at least a thousand acres of land and have the power to rule outside the law."

"What is extra-legal power? It means that as nobles, you killed untouchables. Then, the law cannot judge you... Only I, your supreme Lord Black Crow, can decide your life or death."

"But how could the generous and merciful Lord Black Crow order the trial of his loyal knights?"

"So, my dear soldiers, my loyal soldiers... When we succeed, you will be beyond the law, you will enjoy life wantonly, and enjoy the greatest happiness that this world can offer!"

Xing Tianli waved his hand.

Several guards kept jumping onto carriages and kicking heavy iron boxes to the ground.

The sound of gold coins rolling continued, and a large amount of gold coins rolled to the feet of several scarred men, but those poor people did not look at these gold coins. They all had bloodshot eyes and stared at Xing Tianli.

"Then, can you tell us, these poor bastards, who you are?"

The first one to jump out, the big man with seven or eight scars on his face, shouted wildly: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency Lord Black Crow, please let us know who our future master will be!"

Xing Tianli raised his head triumphantly: "I am Count Allande, the new generation of Count Black Crow. The damned Commonwealth overthrew the noble and sacred Farus Dynasty. A group of untouchables stepped on the blood and flesh of countless nobles and set foot on the usurped throne of power that did not belong to them!"

"I want to set things right."

"I want to redefine the rules!" "I will take the soldiers who are loyal to me and kill all those damn rebels. I want to take back everything that belongs to the Farus Dynasty and the Farus nobles... I will, and I will, become the new king of Farus!"

"And you, those of you who survived the battlefield, will share the glory of the new dynasty with me!"

"If you live, you will have a seat beside my throne in the future!"

"If you unfortunately die in battle, then one hundred glory gold coins will be sent to your family... One of your brothers or sons will join my army and continue to fight for me until a true noble emerges from your family!"

A shrewd-looking hook-nosed man shouted wildly: "But, Your Majesty, you will have millions or tens of millions of warriors under your command. You have such a large territory. Will you confer us the title of nobility?"

Xing Tianli laughed coldly: "What a foolish thing to say, if there is no such a large territory, we can just go and rob it!"

'Hula!'
Hundreds of thousands of poor people from all directions cheered. They clapped, stamped their feet, and cheered. Then, led by those scarred men, countless poor people knelt down towards Xing Tianli.

Waves of people knelt down, like the tide spreading across the land. They shouted in unison the name of "His Majesty the Black Crow". Their cheers could be heard even in the busiest streets in the center of Port Saint Hill... Countless dignitaries of Port Saint Hill all changed color. For the first time in their lives, they felt fear from the bottom of their souls.

Those lowly bastards... could there be such incredible power hidden among them?
These lowly creatures who can be ravaged, trampled, exploited and executed at will on a daily basis, once they become aware and once someone organizes them, they can actually burst into such terrible cheers?
Around the port of St. Hill, the garrison armed themselves frantically and quickly occupied all the important transportation routes.

In the naval port of St. Hill, new and old warships started fires and set sail as efficiently as possible. They were several miles away from the harbor, with their huge black gun muzzles aiming blankly at the land, but they didn't know who to fire at.

The dignitaries of Port San Gil rushed to the City Hall as if they were in a hurry.

Little Doug personally presided over the meeting. Regardless of their status or how long their family heritage was, these bigwigs, who were considered leading figures in the entire Kingdom of Ingish, trembled uncontrollably and discussed countermeasures tremblingly.

Telegraphs and radio waves frantically sent reports of what was happening in the slums of Port Saint Hill to the capital of England at the fastest speed.

Meanwhile, in the capital of Yingjishi, the opinions of the imperial high-ranking officials were conveyed back with the utmost efficiency.

What reassures Doug and the others is that the garrisons of several important cities around Port St. Hill have already been fully mobilized. More than 200,000 fully armed troops equipped with the most advanced weapons are encircling the port from all directions.

The Port of St. Hill is as solid as a mountain, and no one can shake its glory.

Boxes of gold coins were carried in from Xing Tianli's yacht and frigate and were continuously distributed.

In the slums, cheers were heard as countless people bowed down to Xing Tianli, calling him "our dearest king"... Three hundred armed policemen, all of whom had read books, knew a little and had basic copying skills, turned themselves into clerks, set up long tables, and registered the names of the soldiers who came to Xing Tianli to surrender one by one.

Behind Xing Tianli, countless men who had registered their names and received gold coins stood quietly. Some men who had served in the army and had fallen into the slums for various reasons shouted slogans and directed these poor people to form a roughly acceptable team.

A square formation of ten thousand people.

Two square formations of 10,000 people.

Ten square formations of ten thousand people.

A roughly neat array of soldiers lined up along the long road, on the fields on both sides of the road.

In all directions, the reconnaissance cavalry sent out by the garrison of Port St. Hill rode their war horses back and forth in panic, constantly reporting the situation here to all parties.

What terrified the leading figures of Port Saint Hill was that among these poor people, there were no less than 30,000 people who had obtained old-fashioned matchlock rifles and flintlock rifles from somewhere and formed a serious musket regiment!

They even dragged out a dozen small-caliber old-fashioned bronze cannons and formed a small artillery regiment.

Little Doug, Earl Allen and other dignitaries realized belatedly that they had been sitting on the crater of a volcano without knowing it!

If it weren't for this damned Count Black Crow a hundred times.

If it was some ambitious person inside the Kingdom of Yingjishi!

There are millions of poor people in the slums of Port St. Hill... There are more than a hundred similar slums on Hillland Island.

Slums around cities, slums next to mining areas, slums next to pastures, slums next to factory parks... all kinds of slums...

Think carefully.

Dare not think about it anymore!

At midnight, little Doug, accompanied by a pale-haired old man, secretly found Xing Tianli.

Xing Tianli was in the slums. The carriage sheds of the ten carriages had been dismantled and the carriage frames had been assembled into a large platform with a cowhide tent on top. Xing Tianli pulled a small stool and sat on it with his horse and sword, holding a large wine glass made of pure gold and mottled with ancient colors, and was drinking strong liquor in big gulps.

In each of the soldier formations, the poor soldiers were drinking, eating meat, and gnawing on white bread, which they would never be willing to eat or have the financial resources to eat on normal days, and it was even more impossible for any bakery to be willing to sell to them.

Snow-white bread without any impurities, spread with butter.

Golden, odorless, grilled meat smeared with lots of spices.

These were all delicacies that Xing Tianli had spent a lot of money to purchase from Port Saint Hill and even from several nearby large towns. Because the quantity purchased at one time was too large and it took a lot of time to transport them, it was not until midnight that these poor soldiers had such a sumptuous meal that was enough to make them risk their lives.

Many poor soldiers ate and drank, their tears streaming down their cheeks. They raised their glasses and shouted out crazy slogans again: "Long live His Majesty the King! We are willing to die for His Majesty!"

The poor people, with little education, could only shout "Long live Xing Tianli". They were willing to fight for him and even die for him. This was the best toast they could think of.

Although the word "Long live" sounded more like a curse when used on Xing Tianli, Xing Tianli was quite satisfied as he listened to the cheers of the soldiers and felt the sincere, monotonous, radical and paranoid emotions in their roars.

Seeing little Doug, Xing Tianli shook the golden wine glass in his hand, and the royal emblem of the old Farus Dynasty was clearly visible on the colorful ancient wine glass.

Little Doug and the white-haired old man's expressions changed slightly - they became more and more certain that the Farus Republic had enough reasons to launch a retaliatory attack on the 'Majesty the Black Crow' in front of them. This wine glass clearly came from the royal treasure that disappeared without a trace when the old Farus Dynasty collapsed!
"Marquis Williams." Little Doug introduced the white-haired old man beside him to Xing Tianli. Xing Tianli's eyes quickly swept across the old man's silver pupils with a line of golden light on the edges - the old guy's blood was surging, and he possessed a physical strength of nearly 100,000 pounds. It was obvious that he had also undergone the transformation of genetic ascension!
Marquis Williams, the chief of intelligence stationed in Port St. Hill by Her Majesty the Queen of England, coordinates all external and internal intelligence affairs of Hillland Island - whether it is the army, navy, foreign ministry, colonial affairs administration and other large and small intelligence agencies, all their intelligence will be summarized in the hands of this old man, and then valuable and important intelligence will be selected and submitted directly to Her Majesty the Queen.

If necessary, Williams could directly intervene in the work of any intelligence department on Hillland Island.

On Hillland Island, this inconspicuous old man has almost unlimited power!

In Xing Tianli's cowhide tent, Marquis Williams got straight to the point and directly presented a thick document: "Dear Earl of Arland, our Queen, the aristocracy of the entire Kingdom of England, sympathizes with the misfortune of the Kingdom of Farus... Therefore, we are willing to provide all possible assistance for the restoration of the Farus Dynasty!"

"As long as you are willing to sign this "Secret Treaty of Restoration", you will receive the most loyal friendship of the Kingdom of Yingjishi!"

(End of this chapter)